Bracing An Attic To Make A Room

This completes the reframing process.

Bracing an attic to make a room.

No foundations or setbacks to worry about. Homeowners cannot take chances with the structural integrity of their roofs. How to brace rafters in an attic. An attic is often the easiest place to add onto your house.

Create an extra bedroom a master suite a media room a play room or anything you can imagine for much less than the cost of an addition. Nail them to the rafters and angle nail the center support to the top edge of the horizontal brace. Your attic is now ready for finishing. Cut a 2 by 4 to fit horizontally from rafter to rafter on each truss.

The roof is subject to pressure placed on it by natural forces including snow rain. When deciding whether to convert an attic into living space there are a number of questions to consider including access ceiling height and natural light. Unfortunately my home builder had framed out the attic using a common truss system utilizing 2x4 s see attached picture of exact type although my roof is much steeper and no middle non bearing wall below. Converting existing attic space into a bedroom is a popular home improvement project that can return over 93 of the money invested when you sell your house.